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J. W. B-EGG. GLOVE.

No. 463,290. Patented Nov. 17, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JAMES VI BEGG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES lVHI'lE, OF SAME PLACE.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,290, dated November 17, 1891. Application filed April 20,1891. $erial No. 389,611. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES W. BEGG, a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to gloves designed to be worn for shopping and for other ordinary daily wear; and the object of my invention is IO to obtain a glove suitable to be worn upon the occasions for the purposes and in the same manner in which gloves heretofore designed for shopping or other daily use are worn now, and to furnish a glove so constructed that when the same is upon the hand of the wearer a receptacle will be provided in the glove, such receptacle being adapted to contain change, car-tickets, and other like articles, and to which receptacle access can be had without removal of the glove from the hand, and also to construct a glove having a receptacle therein, as described, which will fit the hand in a presentable way.

The manner in which I accomplish the purposes sought by me is by constructing in the manner hereinafter described a pocket placed in the portion of the glove covering the palm of the hand and so made that the contents thereof, particularly when the same consists 0 of small pieces of money, shall not be dislodged or spilled therefrom.

I have illustrated my invention by the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a glove having a receptacle constructed therein; Fig. 2, a lateral cross-section on line 2 2 of Fig.1, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrow; Fig. 3, a longitudinal cross-section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrow. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a glove having thereceptacle attached thereto,

such receptacle being constructed and attached in a different manner from that in which the receptacle illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 is constructed and attached to the glove and constituting a modification of the device as illustrated in said Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Fig. 5 is a lateral cross'section on line 5 5 of Fig. 7, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrow; and Fig. 6 is a longitudinal cross-section on line 6 0 of Fig. 4, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows.

The letter of reference indicating a given part in one figure of the drawings is applied I to the same part in the several views thereof.

A is a glove. a is the palm or part thereof coveringt-he palm of the hand, a'is theback. a is the thumb thereof.

B isa piece of flexible material, preferably leather, sewed to the glove A in the palm a thereof upon the inside of the glove. This piece B is attached to the glove by being sewed thereto, as indicated by the dotted lines near the several edges b, 12, b and b respectively, in Fig. 1. The sewing indicated by the dotted line on edge Z) of piece B attaches the piece B to the thumb, and the stitching by which the thumb-piece is ordinarily attached to the palm a of the glove is omitted between the edges 1) and b of pieee B, thus securing an opening 17* into the pocket or receptacle formed by the piece B when attached, as described, on the inner edge of the palm of the hand.

b is a binding or stitching on that part of the palm a of the glove which has heretofore been stitched or sewed to the thumb-piece ta The fastening C may consist of a hollow button secured to the palm to of the glove and fitting over a post secured to the piece B, or it may consist of an ordinary button sewed to piece B, adapted to fit over a button-hole on palm a of the glove, and in some cases, particularly where the binding I) is used, I omit the fastening C altogether.

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 the receptacle or pocket is formed by sewing the piece (lettered B in such Figs. 4:, 5, and 6) on the outside of the palm to of the glove. In this modification the palm a of the glove is sewed to the thumb a in the ordinary way; but the edge (Z of piece 13' (such side corresponding to the edge Z) of piece B in Fig. 1) is unsewed, thereby obtaining an opening into 5 the receptacle formed by the sewing of the piece B on three of its edges-that is, on edges d, (P, and (K -to the palm a of the glove.

e and e is the stitching by which piece B is secured to the palm a of the glove. 10o

C is the fastening by which the opening -to the receptacle formed by the piece B is secured.

I am aware that gloves having a receptacle in the palm thereof have been heretoforeconstructed; but as heretofore made a flap or gusset is required to close the opening to the receptacle, while in a glove having a receptacle placed therein in the manner herein described andillustrated, wherein the opening to the receptacle conforms to the line of joining of the thumb-piece to the palm of the v glove, no flap or other fastening is required,

the strain created on the glove when the same is on the hand being in a direction and of sufficient amount to close or tend to close the opening to such receptacle, particularly where, as I prefer, the flexible piece forming one of the sides of the pocket is sewed to the palmof the glove on the inside thereofthat is,next to the hand of the wearer-upon all but'one of its sides, and to the thumb of the glove upon the remaining side thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A glove having a receptacle in the palm thereof, consisting of a strip of flexible material attached upon all but one of its edges to the palm of the glove, the contour of the remaining edge corresponding with the contour of the edge of the palm extending between the attached sides of the strip, with the one of such corresponding edges of the strip and palm adjacent to the thumb of the glove attached thereto, whereby the'location of the opening to the receptacle is made to correspond with the line of joining of the palm and thumb, substantially as described.

2. A glove havingareceptacle in the palm thereof, consisting of a strip of flexible material attached upon all but one of its edges to the under side of the palm of the glove, the remaining edge attached to the thumb of the glove, and bindingattached to the palm of theglove between the attached sides of the flexible strip, whereby the location of the opening to the receptacle corresponds with the line of the joining of the palm and thumb, substantially as described.

JAMES W. BEGG.

Witnesses:

LUTE S. ALTER, CHARLES T. BROWN, 

